PLI Bulletin

Project 2025, Teacher Pay, Nonverbal Communication and More

Posted on September 17, 2024

Stop Intimidation of Public Officials Act: In recent years, there has been a steep increase in the number and severity of threats against public officials. The Stop Intimidation of Public Officials Act makes it a felony to intimidate any public official in an attempt to influence that official’s vote, decision or other official action.

How to improve nonverbal presentation: You may have the best political ideas and employ the best messaging but still communicate ineffectively because of a failure in non-verbal communication. Read about it in the latest IdeaLog, our blog intended to raise eyebrows and engage minds.

Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast: This podcast explores public policy and economics with leading scholars and experts. The most recent PolicyCast is “How to turn back a rising tide of political threats and violence.”

Teacher pay rises in 2023, but not enough: Teacher pay rose 1.7 percent last year, according to the Economic Policy Institute. However, on average, teachers earned only 73.4 cents for every dollar relative to earnings of similar other professionals.

Project 2025 is already reality in many states: This valuable report from the Center for American Progress lays out, issue by issue, Project 2025’s plan for our country and how and where parts of that plan have already been adopted in red states.

Messaging booklet for 2024: If you are working on a political or advocacy campaign right now, you will appreciate our newly-updated booklet, Voicing Our Values: 2024 Edition, downloadable here.